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For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Sawal Aur Jawab - Can I help you?
From the Midlands
Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.

Questions by post, in English or your own language, for answering in the programme should be sent to Make Yourself at Home or Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye, [address removed]

(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Peterborough, Tacolneston, Holme Moss, Pontop Pike, Winter Hill, Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)
(to 9.20)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Morby
Programme Editor:
David Gretton

Written by Michel Faure and Joe Cremona.
A course of thirty lessons for absolute beginners in French.

Jean-Paul's friends help him to redecorate his flat.

With Pamela Stirling, Andre Maranne
and Malou Pantera as Francoise, Francois Brincourt as Jean-Paul
Repeated on Tuesday at 10.50 p.m.
See facing page
(to 9.55)

Contributors

Writer:
Michel Faure
Writer:
Joe Cremona
Designer:
Charles Lawrence
Director:
Maddalena Fagandini
Producer:
Ronald Smedley
Presenter:
Pamela Stirling
Presenter:
Andre Maranne
Francoise:
Malou Pantera
Jean-Paul:
Francois Brincourt

Adrian Rendle talks to members of the Teddington Theatre Club about the problems involved in running an amateur society.
Repeated next Saturday at 12 noon
See facing page
See also Theatre Club in Study Session on Friday at 6.30 p.m.
(to 10.30)

Contributors

Presenter:
Adrian Rendle
Producer:
Victor Poole

An anthology compiled by Frederick C. Gill.
With Donald Bisset, Timothy Harley, Wilfred Harrison, Len Pearcey and The Jacobean Singers, Conductor, Peter Mortimore
From the Church of All Hallows, London Wall

Contributors

Compiler:
Frederick C. Gill
Speaker:
Donald Bisset
Speaker:
Timothy Harley
Speaker:
Wilfred Harrison
Speaker:
Len Pearcey
Singers:
The Jacobean Singers
Conductor:
Peter Mortimore
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

Most people have a bonus of ten or fifteen years of active life when they retire. How can they make the most of it?

Henry Arthur Jones, Barbara Shenfield, Geoffrey Gorer
Introduced by Hugh Barrett.
Repeated on Thursday at 4.0 p.m.
See facing page

Contributors

Interviewee:
Henry Arthur Jones
Interviewee:
Barbara Shenfield
Interviewee:
Geoffrey Gorer
Presenter:
Hugh Barrett
Interviewer:
Joan Bakewell
Design:
Paul Allen
Music arrangement:
John Lill
Director:
Michael Blakstad
Producer:
Beryl Radley

A series of ten programmes unravelling the workings of the weather.

Professor P.A. Sheppard of Imperial College, London explains how the atmosphere manufactures weather out of energy supplied to it by the sun at the rate of 4 1/2 million horsepower for every square mile of its beam.

Repeated on Monday at 11.0 p.m.
See facing page

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor P.A. Sheppard
Director:
David Cordingley
Producer:
Brenda Horsfield

Warm, pleasant jobs after a good Sunday lunch-with Percy Thrower.
The last of three programmes at this time concerned with the pleasures (and the costs) of house and conservatory plants, and the value of an all-the-year-round greenhouse.
Ken Burras (Oxford) suggests an interesting family of plants for the house and greenhouse -Bromeliads.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Ken Burras
Producer:
Paul Morby

Introduced by John Cherrington.

Peter Williams visits the Shropshire Farm Institute, where the system on its small farm has been intensified and simplified to meet the economic changes of the last ten years.
From the Midlands

And Weather Situation for farmers and growers

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Reporter:
Peter Williams
Director:
John Bird
Producer:
John Kenyon

from Switzerland
Highlights of this morning's event held on the slopes above Wengen.
Presented by the Swiss Television Service

2.15-2.25 The Letter: a cartoon film.
2.25-2.50 A Man With a View: Laurie Lee on Stroud
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Commentator:
Max Robertson
BBC production Team:
Peter Massey
BBC production Team:
Ian Smith
Presenter (A Man With a View):
Laurie Lee

Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake

The hilarious and sometimes bitter adventures of a Hollywood film director, who poses as a tramp and goes out into the world to see what makes the common man tick.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Preston Sturges
John L. Sullivan:
Joel McCrea
The girl:
Veronica Lake
Mr. Jones:
William Demarest
Le Brand:
Robert Warrick
Mr. Casalsis:
Franklyn Pangborn
Mr. Hadran:
Porter Hall
Sullivan's butler:
Robert Gregg
Sullivan's valet:
Eric Blore
Mr. Valdelle:
Byron Foulger
Secretary:
Margaret Hayes

by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by Vincent Tilsley.

In which David meets new friends but is disturbed by his homecoming.
See page 11

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Vincent Tilsley
Music composed and conducted by:
John Hotchkis
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Joan Craft
David:
Christopher Guard
Peggotty:
Lila Kaye
Mr. Murdstone:
Richard Leech
Mrs. Copperfield:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Man at hotel:
Geoffrey Wearing
Barkis:
Gordon Gostelow
Mr. Peggotty:
Joss Ackland
Ham Peggotty:
Basil Moss
Mrs. Gummidge:
Olga Lindo
Little Emily:
Suzanne Togni

Written by Robert Gray.
Pinky and Perky and Jimmy Thompson this week prove that You, too, can be an archaeologist.
From the North
See page 14

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Gray
Presenter:
Jimmy Thompson
Puppets presented by:
Jan Dalibor
Puppets presented by:
Vlasta Dalibor
Additional manipulator:
Philip Rose
Additional manipulator:
Elizabeth Rose
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Norman Newell
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Alyn Ainsworth
Producer:
Stan Parkinson

A controversial best-seller (to the surprise of its author) attempts to re-interpret the life and work of Jesus in the light of historical studies of his time, including the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield author of the book discusses his ideas with Professor Christopher Evans, Professor of New Testament Studies, University of London King's College.
Chairman, Derek Hart

Repeated tonight at 10.55

Contributors

Panellist:
Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield
Panellist:
Professor Christopher Evans
Chairman:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Peter Ferres

An appeal by disabled people on behalf of the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled.
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to: Disabled Appeal, [address removed].

This is the principal organisation concerned with every aspect of disability. Its prime concern is the restoration to as near normal as possible of those who have suffered a disabling experience. The Council does not look merely at the disability, but at what is left of capacity. By education, training, research, and study new horizons have been created for thousands of handicapped people.

from The City Temple, London.
Members of churches in the Greater London area join with the choir and congregation of the City Temple.
Prayer and Blessing by The Minister, The Rev. Dr. Leonard Griffith
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.

O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother (Tune, Intercessor)
Let all the world In every corner sing (Tune, Luckington)
Lord of our life, and God of our salvation (Tune, Rouen)
Children of the heavenly King (Tune, Vienna)
Break thou the bread of life (Tune, Bread of Life)
Turn back, O man, forswear thy foolish ways (Tune, Old 124th)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord (Tune, Vision)
Christ for the world! we sing (Tune, Milton Abbas)
Thee we praise, high priest and victim (Tune, Stuttgart)
City of God, how broad and far (Tune, Richmond)

Contributors

Organist:
Dr. Eric H. Thiman
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. Dr. Leonard Griffith
Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Arranged by:
Colin Beale
Television Presentation:
Barrie Edgar

The film this Sunday stars Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford

Garson Kanin's famous comedy about a self-made millionaire, who hires a writer to instruct his beautiful but dumb girl-friend how to behave in her new surroundings.

Contributors

Director:
George Cukor
Producer:
S. Sylvan Simon
Script:
Albert Mannheimer
From the play by:
Garson Kanin
Billie Dawn:
Judy Holliday
Paul Verrall:
William Holden
Harry Brock:
Broderick Crawford
Jim Devery:
Howard St. John
Eddie:
Frank Otto
Norval Hedges:
Larry Oliver
Mrs. Hedges:
Barbara Brown
Sanborn:
Grandon Rhodes

Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in "Alibi for a Judge" at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Created by:
A.J. Cronin
Script:
John Maitland
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Paul Ciappessoni
Alyson Millar:
Wendy McClure
Jamie Strachan:
Paul Kermack
Ian:
David Strong
Mistress Niven:
Effie Morrison
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Mr. Robertson:
Fred Ferris
Nancy:
Marie Phillips
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Maggie Strachan:
Amanda Walker
Bill Murdoch:
Howell Evans
Mr. Ferguson:
Ian MacNaughton
Geordie:
Charles Haggith
Duggie:
Jeremy Ure
Mr. Millar:
Norman Wynne

Written and narrated by John Donat.
The weekly feature series on artists and the arts.

Ove Arup has spent his life making architecture. Whether it be a penguin pool at the London Zoo, a foot-bridge at Durham, or a twenty-million pound opera house now under construction at Sydney, the same beauty and humanity reveal the hand of a modern master.

Contributors

Writer/narrator:
John Donat
Subject:
Ove Arup
Music for guitar composed and played by:
Freddie Phillips
Producer:
John Read

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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